Juvenile Miscellany - Spring 2021

The Volume 30, Number 1 issue of Juvenile Miscellany focuses largely on our operational adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue provides our readers remote access to newly acquired collections (William Abrashkin & Constance Savery) as well as a sampling of digitized materials de Grummond has made available via our website. The 2021 Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival was entirely virtual in response to the pandemic as was the celebration of the 35th Anniversary Ezra Jack Keats Award. Also featured are the release of A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children’s Literature Collection, Easter tidings from the Tasha Tudor Collection and a description of one Graduate Student’s experience working in the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.https://aquila.usm.edu/juvenile_miscellany/1001/thumbnail.jp

Juvenile Miscellany (Fall 2021)

The Volume 1 Fall issue of Juvenile Miscellany is an overview of 2021 in children’s literature. We painfully said goodbye to many of the great luminaries in the field. USM also celebrated the 80th birthday of Curious George with much fanfare and celebration. We welcomed a new practicum student in de Grummond and she writes about her experiences processing the Neubert Valentine collection. The collection also commissioned a series of tintype photographs of The Infants Library (1800) to be gifted to Sharon Draper as the 2021 de Grummond Lecturer. Curator, Ellen Ruffin, interviews Cynthia Leitich Smith of the Heartdrum imprint. This issue also features a spotlight on the pop-up book artwork of Jan Pieńkowski. Also included are descriptions of the Mock Ezra Jack Keats Award as well as a virtual exhibit of the Ezra Jack Keats Award available via degrummond.org.https://aquila.usm.edu/juvenile_miscellany/1002/thumbnail.jp

Anticipating ubiquitous computing: Logics to forecast technological futures

Visions of the future predict spaces apparently teaming with ever more novel and pervasive technologies. Significant amongst such forecasts is the notion of 'ubiquitous computing' (ubicomp), understood as an affordance or capacity tied (in)to people, places and things. This article stages an encounter between the futurity of ubicomp and recent debates in geography around anticipation. So, first, the future orientation in ubicomp research and development (R&D) is investigated as a mode of anticipation. 'Knowledges', and 'logics' of anticipation are subsequently, and second, discussed as the conceptual apparatus that constructs and perpetuates the 'proximate future' of ubicomp. This analysis connects recent discussion about 'anticipation' in social sciences research with the methods of ubicomp research, which fits with an emergent agenda around futurity in human geography. Third, the conceptual articulation of 'anticipatory logic' is applied to the analysis of empirical investigations of ubicomp R&D to identify the specific logics of anticipation at play. This article accordingly examines the logics of anticipation that both support and destabilise the certainty with which the future is imagined within ubicomp. In conclusion, the multiple ways of anticipating a future world and the ways in which they discipline understandings of futurity are framed as a politics of anticipation. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd